Everytime my wife and I watch a scifi or fantasy movie, one of us will remark that the movie would look better with models or puppets. Seriously, the sequels to Star Wars will look better with puppets or models. If JJ Abrams wants to do something unique and respect the original work, he'll look here.

azmoviez:Everytime my wife and I watch a scifi or fantasy movie, one of us will remark that the movie would look better with models or puppets. Seriously, the sequels to Star Wars will look better with puppets or models. If JJ Abrams wants to do something unique and respect the original work, he'll look here.

You might be surprised how many ships and buildings in the prequels were models. There was a lot of unnecessary CGI though too. Not one clone trooper in Attack of the Clones was a guy in a suit.

ShawnDoc:Mugato: Who cares, with JJ at the helm, Robert Orci will surely be writing it.

There's 3 Star Wars movies in the works. One is based on Han Solo prior to Ep 4 and the other follows Boba Fett. One of the people working on those is the writer of Empire Strikes Back and Jedi.

Just out of curiosity, can you cite something elaborating more on the Boba Fett one? I'm guessing it'll draw from the bounty hunter novel trilogy, but I'd definitely like to know more. The Han one should be pretty cool as well, but I've already got a pretty good idea which direction they'd go in with that one. I know that at least one of the movies is also suppose to follow Luke and his brood, and Luke's quest to rebuild the Jedi Order.

Mugato:You might be surprised how many ships and buildings in the prequels were models. There was a lot of unnecessary CGI though too. Not one clone trooper in Attack of the Clones was a guy in a suit.I would be surprised since every ounce of the prequels look fake as hell. I'm looking at Yoda as the focal point but the vehicles and atmosphere were really cheesy. I can't help but think using more real objects wouldn't help a production look more real.

azmoviez:Everytime my wife and I watch a scifi or fantasy movie, one of us will remark that the movie would look better with models or puppets. Seriously, the sequels to Star Wars will look better with puppets or models. If JJ Abrams wants to do something unique and respect the original work, he'll look here.

This this this a thousand times this.

I still remember the collective groan when Yoda started bouncing around like an animated tick on meth. Practical effects are great and there's less uncanny valley. Tools are tools, over-reliance on one particular tool tends to ruin things. If Jackson can strike a balance, then others can, too.

A Boba Fett movie could work. He's a potentially interesting character with enormous room for fresh stories between what little has been established on screen. (And bear in mind, for most of the movie going public, the movies are all that count, not any extended universe, novels, comic books, etc.).

But a Yoda movie or a Solo movie is only going to give us one of two things. It will either give us revelations about their past that diminish, rather than enhance, the mystery; or it will give us silly contradictions to established canon. Possibly both.

If it were me, I'd do something really off-axis and run with Yoda's gnomic comment about "there is another". Yes, I know it was originally supposed to refer to Leia, but that idea never really got played out (again, only counting the movies). I'd love to see a writer take the idea that in the years that she and Anakin were apart, Amidala had a child out of wedlock that she gave up for adoption -- and that's the sister that Yoda was referring to. With no training nor moral guidance, nor indeed any knowledge of the Jedi, she grows up to have strange powers but no idea how to properly control them, so she becomes -- what? A con artist? A high-end burglar, the Catwoman of the Star Wars universe? Perhaps she is hunted by Imperial agents who recognize her Force powers, but she has absolutely no idea why.

I thought Yoda doing Jedi break dance fighting was one of the worst parts of the prequels. But if it's 100 year old Yoda doing it, when he's young and reckless? Cool with me. Also gives Disney a way to make more kid friendly Star Wars movies while leaving the new trilogy to be more adult accessible like the OT was. Everyone can win here.

Champion of the Sun:I thought Yoda doing Jedi break dance fighting was one of the worst parts of the prequels

And they wouldn't have been able to do it without CGI. Well they could but it would have been done a lot more sparingly and not as ridiculous, I think. With great VFX technology comes great responsibility,

Znuh:I still remember the collective groan when Yoda started bouncing around like an animated tick on meth. Practical effects are great and there's less uncanny valley. Tools are tools, over-reliance on one particular tool tends to ruin things. If Jackson can strike a balance, then others can, too.

Dude - it had nothing to do with the animation. People had a certain perception of what Yoda was. Which was of a wise old master not as a jumping lightsaber wielding dancing frog. That whole scene was cringworthy. The dialog sucked, the pacing sucked, the editing sucked. The animation was the best thing about that scene.

And he got beat by Palpatine and crawled away like a biatch and fled to a swamp. Lucas painted himself into a corner with the original trilogy when he had Obi Wan and Yoda essentially in hiding. He needed to better explain why they fled and didn't keep fighting.

And he got beat by Palpatine and crawled away like a biatch and fled to a swamp. Lucas painted himself into a corner with the original trilogy when he had Obi Wan and Yoda essentially in hiding. He needed to better explain why they fled and didn't keep fighting.

Yeah, there was still a chance right after the fight destroying the senate chamber. Instead, into exile I must go.... At least obi wan succeeded at his mission.

A Boba Fett movie could work. He's a potentially interesting character with enormous room for fresh stories between what little has been established on screen. (And bear in mind, for most of the movie going public, the movies are all that count, not any extended universe, novels, comic books, etc.).

But a Yoda movie or a Solo movie is only going to give us one of two things. It will either give us revelations about their past that diminish, rather than enhance, the mystery; or it will give us silly contradictions to established canon. Possibly both.

If it were me, I'd do something really off-axis and run with Yoda's gnomic comment about "there is another". Yes, I know it was originally supposed to refer to Leia, but that idea never really got played out (again, only counting the movies). I'd love to see a writer take the idea that in the years that she and Anakin were apart, Amidala had a child out of wedlock that she gave up for adoption -- and that's the sister that Yoda was referring to. With no training nor moral guidance, nor indeed any knowledge of the Jedi, she grows up to have strange powers but no idea how to properly control them, so she becomes -- what? A con artist? A high-end burglar, the Catwoman of the Star Wars universe? Perhaps she is hunted by Imperial agents who recognize her Force powers, but she has absolutely no idea why.

A Boba Fett movie won't work for the same reason that the Wolverine movie sucked. The appeal of the character is in how little you know of him, that he comes in and out of the main action, influencing events for his own agenda which is distinct and alien to the agenda of both the protagonists AND the antagonists. Sometimes a character is compelling because they are a sidetrack, a distraction, a wild card.

gshepnyc:A Boba Fett movie won't work for the same reason that the Wolverine movie sucked. The appeal of the character is in how little you know of him, that he comes in and out of the main action, influencing events for his own agenda which is distinct and alien to the agenda of both the protagonists AND the antagonists. Sometimes a character is compelling because they are a sidetrack, a distraction, a wild card.

Oh, I largely agree. It's similar to the reason that I don't want to know any more about Han Solo's back story. But if there's any character of those three that you could tell one more story about without completely ruining their mythos, it would be Boba Fett. There's also a very interesting theme left largely unexplored, namely how does it feel to be a clone? Even more, how does it feel to be the one clone that is in one sense identical to every clone trooper, yet is unique in a very vital way? And how would you feel about a "father" who had you cloned? Would you resent him for depriving you of your individuality? Maybe it's just me, but it seems like there's a rich psychological vein that's worth at least one story.

Having said that, however, my preference would still be that they go with completely new characters.

gshepnyc:A Boba Fett movie won't work for the same reason that the Wolverine movie sucked. The appeal of the character is in how little you know of him, that he comes in and out of the main action, influencing events for his own agenda which is distinct and alien to the agenda of both the protagonists AND the antagonists. Sometimes a character is compelling because they are a sidetrack, a distraction, a wild card.

blacksharpiemarker:oldfarthenry: So he wouldn't support the Muppet movie last year - but wants to be a part of this floating turd of a franchise?

I quite enjoyed the Muppet movie too.

The new Muppet movie was horrid! I really tried to watch it, twice even, but turned it off less than 30 minutes in each time. Ugh. Netflix or Amazon recently added the original Muppet movie to streaming availability and it holds up rather well. That new one is NOT the Muppets. The fact that is was a script or idea that was written and rewritten and rewritten for years in the hopes of rebooting the Muppets certainly didn't help it.

I'd pay to see a movie about Mother Talzin and the Nightsisters vs. a bunch of Sith. Get an idea whether Sith magic is more powerful than Sith Dark Side users. She certainly put Dooku in his place with her Dark Force gros bon ange.

I want to know whether Firmus Piett had a girlfriend, or had a kid who went on to take revenge against the New Republic, or whether Oswald always exited too soon. I want the fat Stormtrooper tired of dealing with the Empire's BS. There's a whole host of minor character drops they could toss in, like chum to the sharks, that the fanboys would eat up. Remember the deleted scene in Episode I when Anakin got into a fight with little Greedo, and his friend Willow said "you keep that up, Greedo, and you'll come to a bad end someday?" And he did.

And many more dancing Twi'lek women. It works in Old Republic, not to mention throwing in an entire legion of cloned Metal Bikini Leias wielding Force pikes.